HC, I just read your last post again
Yes I am aware. and the first click slowdown is the problem. Perhaps you did not get my hint - don't do the first click ! Use the tab, to tab to the tag field and start typing the first list that is presented will be reduced by the letter you typed. Regards Tony On Wednesday, 12 February 2020 00:53:06 UTC+11, HC Haase wrote: > > > > tirsdag den 11. februar 2020 kl. 11.27.42 UTC+1 skrev TonyM: >> >> HC >> >> I started work on providing a filter to the tag drop downs and was asking >> myself how I may filter them to reduce them in number. >> >> I then referred back to your original thread and note a large contributor >> to your problem is the journal tiddlers, >> >> >> - Is that because you use a given days journal title as a tag to >> organise information by day, So have a lot of date tags? >> >> This was just to give an example. It is not a particular annoying problem > for me. the use case was, ifyou use the new journal button, say once a day. > after some time you will have alot of tiddlers with the tag journal. and if > you press the journal tag you will get a very long and slow list. > > You are I assume aware that rather than click the drop down right away, if >> you start typing the list will be filtered, however on first click into the >> tag name entry, it shows all tags right away. >> > > Yes I am aware. and the first click slowdown is the problem. > >> >> What if this click or responce to each letter typed was disabled and you >> had to use the dropdown by click or tabbing to the "tag dropdown", before >> the list appeared, then the list will only be those tiddlers that match the >> search string? This could popup again after 3 to 4 characters are typed >> because by then the possible tag list is reduced. >> > > This is actually a quite good idea with a mix of both approaches. Though I > dont know how if these buttons are small on mobile. > >> >> If however your list is not reduced much after 3-4 characters then I >> believe there is another approach, please give me an example "string" where >> you get too many tag suggestions after the all tag list is displayed if >> possible. >> > > no I have not had this problem. > > Maybe this is feature creep. but I remembered bimlas had some solution > where he added a line to the viewtemplate with a list of (selcedted) often > used tags. Maybe instead of just showing the alfabetically first rags on > the first click, we could only show a list of "selected" tags. when you > start to type or press the tag drop down you could get the normal list. - > just a thought. > >> >> Regards >> Tony >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c90f5244-2287-4ef9-962a-b40849d68128%40googlegroups.com.
